now we want to get you up to date on some of the other stories making news around the world typhoon haag abyss has worn across japan leaving more than 25 people dead and many more injured in one of the strongest storms to hit the country in 6 decades rescue efforts are underway after record rains triggered major flooding and landslides. hong kong pro-democracy activists have scaled the city's lion rock peak 500 meters high to erect a statue they call lady liberty it represents an injured female protester believed to have been shot in the eye by police additional pump up protest took place in multiple locations across the city on sunday. wildfires have forced 100000 people to evacuate their homes in southern california thanks to slowing winds firefighters of beating back blazes that have been burning on the edge of los angeles and thursday fire officials there predict that more wildfires will break out due in part to climate change. well in poland voters are choosing a new parliament today the incumbent nationalist law and justice party was ahead in pre-election surveys but it's hoping fo

well in japan typhoon haag abyss has ripped through large areas of the country leaving several dead and many more injured rescue efforts are now underway as record rains have triggered major flooding and landslides. the rain that battered japan through the longest of nights has mostly stopped folding but the border still break is across large parts of the country for emergency workers charged with the task of rescuing. thousands died like gave them a bit a chance to see those in danger but also take in the massive scale of the task that lies ahead the rescue operations continue countrywide off to hundreds of thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes surrounded by water to some the only way out was a. case of so little i pray for the souls of those who lost their lives. and for the well being of everyone affected by the storm you know you don't and never to believe risky focus will turn to recovery as the unprecedented water levels begin to recede a quarter mile beneath the now you all know or meet the now you've never yet experienced such intense rain and percipient haitian. be

haag is always a source of a good story. 50% of them are true. i don't know which side this this at, but he told us the next of my worry. but he said, the president turned to me and said, would you destroy them? keep in mind, we are talking 4000 hours of tapes. old is a room in the executive office building. think about the problem of this. he says, will you destroy it? and he says, i cannot do that to my family. he said, could you get your valet to do it? actually havemay considered doing it, but the logistics of destroying this many tapes were in our mess. in any case, it was not fully there. he was not well. the hospital and alexander butterfield testified. i am convinced that had the tapes been destroyed, everything else we have discussed, the special prosecutor would not have been fired. ,e were not have the grand jury the judge of the grand jury concluding the president had engaged in obstruction of justice. the conversation that the judge listened to word all came clear to him involved the president's hush money. when john dean expected th

a public trip which covered our secret trip in july '71, i was in thailand and got a call from al haag, the deputy to kissinger who said in sign language that didn't fool anybody listening on the phone but he basically said the russians have once again turned down a summit. so that meant we would give the chinese the summit first. we then, as soon as we got back from the secret group, nixon announced in san clemente, in fact kissinger had been there, we were going to go the next year, within day, the russians agreed to a summit, within weeks they moved on arms control in berlin. so it disproved the people, and we have great respect for george kennen and it shows you how even the smartest people can get things wrong and what courage it took to go against it. >> in the section on vietnam dr. kissinger i think really definitively lays low two of the ongoing controversies. i forget you called them, v c-. hivel rouse or troublesome. and one of them was the agreement that was achieved in '73 could have been achieved earlier. >> look, vietnam is troeshlg and though one can sit here and say it